Store furniture.



.No. 834.674. PATBNTBD OCT. 30, 1906. J. E. KLEINBR & H. J. ANDERSON.

STORE FURNITURE.

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STORE FURNITURE.

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. To all whom it may concern: I

JOSEPH KLEINER, OF

MADISON, AND HANS J. ANDERSON, OF LAKE- MILLS, WISCONSIN.

STORE FURNITURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 30, 1906.

Application filed March 29, 1906. Serial No. 308,636.

Be it known that we, JOSEPH E. KLEINER, a resident of Madison, in thecounty of Dane, and HANs J. ANDERSON, a resident of Lakemills,'in thecounty of Jefferson, State of Wisconsin, citizens of the United States,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Store Furniture;and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof.

Our invention has for its object to improve store furniture similar tothat set forth in Patent No. 617,292, granted January-3,1899, saidinvention consisting in certain peculiarities ofv constructionandcombination of parts herein shown, described, and claimed as constituting. a cheese-safe, a rotary ad'ustable table therein, acheese-cutting mec anism, and means in connection with thetable-adjusting mechanism for computing the amount of cheese to be out.V

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a rear elevation of acheese-safe provided with a rotary adjustable table, cutting mechanism,and computing mechanism in accordance with our invention; Fig. 2, avertical transverse section of the same indicated by line 2 2 in Fig. 1,and Fig. 3 a horizontal section Fndicated by line 3 3 in Fig. 2. 3,

Referring by letter to the drawings, A indicates the bottom of anopen-back preferably rectangular case ordinarily provided with front andend panels B, of glass, said bottom being rearwardly extended from theremainder of the case. The case-bottom is provided with a centralbearing C for a shouldered spindle D, having a disk head 0, made fast toan annular table E, upon which a circular cheese F is supported.

Loose on the upper shoulder portion of the spindle, between the diskhead of same and a similar head (1 of the bearing C, is the annularbottom G of an otherwise semicircular closure H for the case aforesaid.To facilitate rotary adjustment of the closure, the same is providedwith a handle I, and this handle abuts against one or the other of therear posts of the case A to prevent overrunning of said closure.

Fast on the lower end of the spindle is a bevel gear-wheel J, in meshwith a bevel-gearpinion K, fast on an arbor L, for which the bottom andrear of the case aforesaid are provided with bearings. The rear bearingfor the arbor is preferably a hub extension e of a dial M, fastened byscrews or other suitable means to the case and graduated for pounds andfractions of pounds avoirdupois. Fastened on the outer end of the arboris an indicator N, and a handle f is provided in connection with theindicator.

Made fast on the top of the case A is a standard P, provided with guidesg h for a forked shank Q, and a cheese-cutting blade R is fastened tothe fork branches of the shank. The shank-guide g is verticallyadjustable on the standard P and held in adjusted position by aset-screw & to tension a spiral spring S, connected at its ends to saidguile and a fork branch of the shank aforesai In pivotal connection withthe shank Q is a lever T, and one end of the lever is connected by alink U with a bracket V, fast on the top of the case A above specified.

The blade R is hung to be normally clear of the top of the closure H forthe case A and parallel to the rear upper portion of said case, and itsdepth is such as to cut through the thickness of a cheese of standardsize positioned on the table E aforesaid, the width of the blade and itsarrangement being such that it also cuts radially of the cheese from thecenter of said table. The blade is moved down by the lever T againstresistance of the spring S, that serves as a counterpoise for said bladeand lever. After the first cut the table and cheese thereon are moved ontheir axis by turning the arbor L to bring said cheese in position underthe blade for the next cut, the approximate weight of the slice beingcomputed by the indicator N, traversing the dial M adjacent thereto.

Preliminary to the cutting operation above described the closure H isrotated to open the case A and clear the cutting-blade, and said bladeand parts in connection therewith having been returned to normalposition, automatically or otherwise, said closure is swung to normalposition, its rotary movement being always independent of thecheesetable.

We claim 1. A support, a table in rotatable connection with the support,a blade arranged radially of the table and provided with a verticalshank, a standard provided with shankguides one of which is verticallyadjustable,

and parallel to the rear upper portion of said 1 case.

3. An open-back case provided with a rotary adjustable closure, arotatable table in dependent of the closure within theconfines i I ofsame and those of the case, a lever-controlled vertically-reciprocativecounterpoised cutter normally clear of said closure and parallel to therear upper portion of said case, an

indicator'in gear connection with the table,

. and a graduated dial adjacent to the indicator.

4. An open back case provided with a bearing, a table having ashouldered spindle engaging the bearing, a rotary adjustable closure forthe case loose on the upper shoulder portion of the spindle, anindicator having an arbor in gear connection with said spindle, agraduated dial adjacent to the indicator, and

a lever-controlled vertically-reciprocative counterpoised cutternormally clear of said closure and parallel to the rear upper portion ofsaid case' 5. An open back case, a standard and bracket thereon, arotary adjustable closure for the case, a table in rotatable connectionwith the support within the confines of the closure and case independentof said closure, an indicator in gear connection with the table, agraduated dial adjacent to the indicator, a shank for which the standardis provided with guides, a blade in connection with the shank radiallyof said table, a lever in pivotal connection with-said shank and linkedat one end to the aforesaid bracket, and a counterpoise for the shank,blade and lever, said blade being normally parallel to the rear upperportion of the case clear of the closure for same.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands,at Lakemills, in the county of Jefferson and State ofWisconsin, in thepresence of two witnesses.

' JOSEPH E. KLEINER. HANS J. ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

W. H. WooD, E. C. BROW'N.

